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A collection of essays exploring ideas at the intersection of energy, governance, freedom, technology, and the human condition.
Published essays
Long-form thoughts, theory and lived stories.
The Seven Technological Transformations of the Mid 20th and Early 21st Century
8 Nov 2025
A tidal wave of innovation and redefined growth is waiting, but first we must fix the house to ensure it survives the storm
30 Oct 2025
(In draft) Building on quick sand: We can’t just reform, we need to move to solid ground and transform. A proposal for a new energy religion and update of government technology to restore democracy, society, the economy and support avoidance of a Holy War, a civil war and a World War. The answer is tech. We need to build it. What the late Queen would expect.
24 Oct 2025
Break the bureaucracy and restore democracy with maths, economics and physics
21 Oct 2025
The storm is rising, the house is a mess and crumbling, the father is angry, and the children are squabbling
19 Oct 2025
Upcoming essays
Essays I haven’t written yet, but plan to when time allows.
Incompetence, waste, inefficiency and taking an anti-science approach in the UK's delivery of mental health services: Why it's economically and socially moral to solve the problems which create the observable behavioura rather than to prescribe medical interventions to soothe symptoms which arise due to the created problems and how it links to welfare spending and PIP
Incompetencewasteinefficiencytaking an anti-science approach in the UK's delivery of mental health services: Why it's economically
Rawdogging, safety, freedom, regulation, speech, offence, the nanny state, slavery, governance, neuroscience, ADHD, convergent and divergent thinking, vectors, systems thinking, creativity, innovation, business, entrepreneurship, culture, bureaucracy, mental health, suicide, hope and hopelessness, jobs, research, teaching, academia, marketing, brand creation, brand protection, fear, power, politics, the proles & the throne
Rawdoggingsafetyfreedomregulation
What are optimising for exactly? A systems model to deliver for society and the world.
What are optimising for exactly? A systems model to deliver for societythe world.
Petulant children, pessimism, optimism and why starting at the top of a ladder and going down into a well may not be scientifically-aligned, choosing carefully who we give the megaphone to
Petulant childrenpessimismoptimismwhy starting at the top of a ladder
Academia, dystopia, resilience, student mental health, mental health distress which institutions create, burden shifting of internal mental distress of over-empowered decision makers to students to relieve non-science following zealots, conformity vs. non conformity (homogeneity vs. nonhomegentiy), responsible use of taxpayer money, incompetence, professorships, postdocs, insulation, salaries, information barriers, science, inclusion, diversity, culture, process, system dynamics and institutions
Academiadystopiaresiliencestudent mental health
Love vs. hate, good vs. bad, right vs. wrong, rock vs. paper vs. scissors, fire vs. water vs. air vs. earth, strategy vs tactics, looking down vs. building up & when to do each, looking across & control theory & optimisation, searching inwards vs. looking outwards, east vs. west, north vs. south, good vs evil, heroes and villains, winning vs. losing, and why we must ultimately fight for love
Lovehategoodbad
A lived experience: Corruption and incompetence in the energy industry
A lived experience: Corruptionincompetence in the energy industry
The sorting hat, gryffindors, ravenclaws, hufflepuffs and slytherins, bravery in the face of evil and why we must not be afraid to speak the name Voldermort while others apply labels in the face of fear: he who shall not be named and why he should be named so good can win over evil
The sorting hatgryffindorsravenclawshufflepuffs
Who's minion (slave) are you? Dobby, house elves, socks, chains and free elves as it realtes to to organisations today
Who's minion (slave) are you? Dobbyhouse elvessockschains
The culture of ”thinking what’s important is to do enough to get through things and cover your ass” due to a lack oaf confidence and knowledge, doublespeak, circling back, pointless meetings, calendar filling, the 9 to 5, middle management, HR & lying, effectively telling young people they’re stupid, not listening, thinking all ideas are equal, where today’s organisation structures came from and why they are out of date and are designed around stasis and not to deliver innovation or growth
The culture of ”thinking what’s important is to do enough to get through thingscover your ass” due to a lack oaf confidenceknowledgedoublespeak
Idea for political reform: Get rid of all the political parties, have people vote differently based different interest groups
Idea for political reform: Get rid of all the political partieshave people vote differently based different interest groups
A stitch in time saves nine: the importance of listening to early data signals (arguing against waste and inefficiency: it’s only £x and an argument for listening)
A stitch in time saves nine: the importance of listening to early data signals (arguing against wasteinefficiency: it’s only £xan argument for listening)
Technology platform for radical democracy and listening
Technology platform for radical democracylistening
Technology, war, progress, attack and defence
Technologywarprogressattack
The journal industry and academic organisational power strucures are unscientific and immoral
The journal industryacademic organisational power strucures are unscientificimmoral
Critical thinking, fake doctors, fake nurses, the NHS, organisational culture, the industrial revolution, sterility, work life, home life and night life
Critical thinkingfake doctorsfake nursesthe NHS
Skills & technology transformation, immigration, welfare, infrastructure, the 3 R's and the sharing and circular economies
Skillstechnology transformationimmigrationwelfare
Farming, food and rural communities
Farmingfoodrural communities
Trade unions, why it might not be a good idea to design employee contracts which reward tenure rather than public service or delivery reocrd and why the ideals of the triple lock are impoertant and fundamentally correct, and why it's immoral to expect children who aren't born yet to fund bullshit built on bullshit
Trade unionswhy it might not be a good idea to design employee contracts which reward tenure rather than public service or delivery reocrdwhy the ideals of the triple lock are impoertantfundamentally correct
Cities, living on top of each other, urban heat, air and noise pollution
Citiesliving on top of each otherurban heatair
Being a youngster in a dynamic world and why it's important to be able to make mistakes and seek forgiveness
Being a youngster in a dynamic worldwhy it's important to be able to make mistakesseek forgiveness
Asylum seekers, fear, fire, religion, hatred, the boats, Irish and British history, hedge schools, the Celts and the Vikings, the “Great” Irish Famine, the Irish diaspora, the Irish War of independence, population, geography, demographics and resources, growth and degrowth
Asylum seekersfearfirereligion
Physical and mental health, wealth, flows, interactions, cleanliness, God, resilience, human rights, water, food, freezers health tech, genetics, medicine, pharmaceuticals, surgery, preventative care vs. diagnostics and treatment and therapy
Physicalmental healthwealthflows
Robotics, AI and quantum computing
RoboticsAIquantum computing